Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies
Première page du numéro de l'année 1773

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies est une publication britannique, parue annuellement entre 1757 to 1795, répertoriant les prostituées du quartier de Covent Garden, à Londres. Éditée en format de poche, elle était imprimée à Covent Garden et vendue au prix de deux shillings et sixpence. Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz, dans son ouvrage Tableau de l'Angleterre publié en 1788, estime à environ 8 000 le nombre d'exemplaires de la revue vendus chaque année.

Chaque numéro répertorie de 120 à 190 prostituées, officiant dans le quartier de Covent Garden ou dans ses environs, et fournit pour chacune des dames une description physique et un inventaire des pratiques sexuelles proposées.

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